On 20 November 2025, the Health and Safety Executive published their annual statistics on work-related ill health and injury for 2024/25:
https://www.hse.gov.uk/statistics/assets/docs/kinds-of-accident.pdf
The report showed only a small change in the total number of employer-reported (RIDDOR) accidents with a figure of 59,219 (down 5% from 62,410 in 2023/24).
Of those total accidents, 4,684 were a result of a fall from height (down 7% from 5,033 in 2023/24).
Non-fatal fall from height injuries account for 8% of all accidents at work reported by employers. This proportion remains the same as previous years.
The figures are higher when we look at the self-reported accidents from the HSE-preferred source, the Labour Force Survey (LFS):
🔴 Up to 44,000 people reported they were injured at work due to a fall from height (up 19% from 37,000 in 2023/24), which is around 7% of the total self-reported accidents. That’s around 120 people every day reportedly injured after falling from height! That equates to 5 people every hour!
🔴 Up to 416,000 working days were lost through non-fatal falls from height in Great Britain in 2024/25 alone (down 40% from 688,000 in 2023/24).
🔴 Cost of non-fatal falls from height estimated to be up to £687 million, made up of costs to the employer and the individual, government tax losses and benefit payments (down 19% from £850 million in 2023/24).
Sources:
https://www.hse.gov.uk/statistics/assets/docs/ridkind.xlsx
https://www.hse.gov.uk/statistics/assets/docs/lfsinjknd.xlsx
https://www.hse.gov.uk/statistics/assets/docs/cost-to-britain.pdf
